University WiFi suffers iPhone flood attacks

As a user, stepping into a WiFi cloud is a great boon when you’ve been making do with dull old EDGE all day; as a network administrator, it might be that your nightmare is just about to start.  Duke University, which has a campus-wide wireless network, has been experiencing periodic outages thanks to a small number of iPhones flooding access points with MAC address requests.

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Original post by Chris Davies

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